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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

IIRC the oral history could be explained, in that the folks on Rapa Nui were actually not the ones sailing to South America, it was actually the other way around.

Were that the case then South America wouldn't necessarily be documented in an oral history, just visitors from a far away land.